why the question:I just remember about 4 years ago i saw an Impala Police vehicle sandwiched between 2 cars.... Total loss(Going to guess trying to stop one of the car, they didn't stop and got push into the other?)

There hasn't been a bumper on a car in ages. A real bumper is made of steel and attached to a real frame. Today's "bumpers" are just plastic fascia attached by clips to the body. It's mostly for style and aerodynamics.

There hasn't been a bumper on a car in ages. A real bumper is made of steel and attached to a real frame. Today's "bumpers" are just plastic fascia attached by clips to the body. It's mostly for style and aerodynamics.

That is the bumper cover. The actual bumper is behind the bumper cover.

Most of the push-bars that I would see in NYC in the early 2000s were all rusty, likely would fall apart if they were actually used. I also infrequently seen them nowadays, honestly see them more on the "trying-to-look-like-a-cop" crowd.

They are popular in some areas, and not others.We've never had them in our SO, and they're not generally used in our area.If we did have them, I could be in favor of them, but not due to LEO actions but more so due to impacts with animals (deer are thick as flies in rural IN).

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Push bumpers add cost to an already expensive vehicle. These new police vehicles are not getting cheaper, nor are departments funding themselves flush with cash. A new Police Interceptor SUV (Explorer) is nearly $50,000. I suspect it's a cost-saving move.

For example, Chicago PD just announced they are buying 500 of those new Explorer-based vehicles at $47,000 each. If a push bumper adds, say, $2,000 to the cost of each vehicle, that's another million dollars on top of the already huge $23.5M price tag for those cars. Chicago is not exactly sitting on a huge cash surplus.

I can't even remember the last time I saw one on a Chicago PD vehicle. We still have tons of Crown Vics running around and they don't have the push bars, nor do the newer Explorers, Suburbans, or Tauruses. I occasionally see them on Illinois State Police vehicles, but their duties probably involve some different things than a cop in downtown Chicago would see.

i think that the liabilty of using a push bar to move a car out of the road is quite high. your $100k car breaks down on the highway and a state trooper uses his push bar equipped car to push you to the side and really messes it up. So who is liable?